During the early oil discovery days, a Texas farmer discovers oil only to be swallowed by its greed. This movie started of silent and people getting oil out of the ground and the movie is set in different years of time which works in this movie not like other films. The acting is Fantastic and out of this world unspeakably brilliant and the cinematography is breathtaking.

PT Anderson directs a beast of a film, led by a tour-de-force chameleon performance by the great Daniel Day-Lewis. The film deals heavily with themes of religion, greed, and ambition and leaves a lot of its deepest questions up to the audience to interpret. The cinematography is stunning and a minimalist score by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood completes the masterwork.

Brilliantly executed film, upheld by a superb and memorable performance from Daniel Day-Lewis. The main conflict between his and Dano's characters drives the film with a slow tensity that leads to an expected bloody climax. It's Plainview's strict determination that makes the journey worth revisiting.

Everything was just TOO. MUCH. Especially the grandiose acting and the claustrophobic score that was so invasive I couldn't even think. That ending was wretched, and I'm not talking about the blood. "There will be blasphemy." Dark movies like this have to have an emotional heart; (think Ellen Burstyn in Requiem) this movie just had a gaping void left where the two men had sold their souls.